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Spoiler for Comparison to previous Key adaptations and Maeda stories:

Key has always been a blend of goofball comedy with what could probably best be called "moe drama".

That's just Maeda's writing style. The man is superb at writing certain types of stories, but he has very little range.

For example - Why baseball? Because Maeda likes baseball. Clannad had an entire episode devoted to a baseball game, and so did Angel Beats! (which was wrote by Maeda). Maeda simply likes the sport. I say we should just roll with it - Better for a writer to write about a sport that he genuinely loves (and hence that "labor of love" feeling comes with it) than a writer try to come up with something obscure just for the sake of it being obscure.